Vietnam: Growing opportunities to forge new wood products business links in the US
Vietnam’s exports of wood products increased significantly in the first 9 months, most notably exports to the US rose [...]
November 4, 2019
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North American panel prices recover magnificently, big changes at BC sawmill operators
This week started with big news as Canfor announced a bid to go private, and Conifex sold its Fort St [...]
October 31, 2019
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Video: Why 25 B.C. lumber mills have stopped operating?
The heavily interconnected B.C. forestry sector is facing a crisis as 25 mills have ceased operating this year, leaving [...]
October 31, 2019
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Vietnam’s wood and forest products exports on track to generate revenue of US$11.0B in 2019
Robust signs since the outset of the year have made Vietnam's timber and forestry sector confident of gaining 11 [...]
October 31, 2019
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Swedish Martinsons plans to increase the production of wood products, glulam and CLT
Martinsons announced a SEK 120 million (EUR 11.1 million) investment in its sawmill plants in Bygdsiljum and Kroksjön [...]
October 31, 2019
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Canfor to back Jim Pattison’s billion-dollar takeover bid
A special committee of Canfor’s board has approved an almost $1-billion offer from a Jim Pattison company to [...]
October 31, 2019
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Market potential for New Zealand’s radiata pine in Vietnam
New Zealand’s Sequal Holdings Ltd. and Vietnam’s VinaFor Saigon have inked a distribution agreement, with the former to [...]
October 31, 2019
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Finland: Forestry giants Stora Enso and UPM report declining profits in Q3/2019
Finland's forestry giants, Stora Enso and UPM, have reported declining profits and smaller production output for the third quarter [...]
October 31, 2019
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Cheap European logs fill the Chinese falling softwood stocks
While log supply from North and South America in China has virtually dried up the volume from Europe continues to [...]
October 29, 2019
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China: Weak market for European birch timber, as Russian birch becomes cheaper
Some Chinese merchants said that this year, due to the short-term factors such as the downturn in the property [...]
October 29, 2019
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